City Life

Brewers put the “fun” in “extra security measures” with Bob Uecker video

September 12, 2014

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• If there’s one thing Americans are good at, it’s suffering countless indignities in exchan...

Faith in progress: Marriage equality, religion, and random rooming assignments

Tyler Maas

September 10, 2014

By now you’ve at least caught wind of last week’s decision by a three-judge panel in the U.S. Circuit Court Of Appeals declaring Wisconsin’s gay marriage ban to be unconstitutional. There’s likely to be miles w...

The future of Milwaukee’s lakefront just got more futuristic (maybe)

Matt Wild

September 5, 2014

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• For a city that prides itself on its proximity to Lake Michigan, Milwaukee’s downtown lake...

Milwaukee River, four ways: Making the most of the city’s urban waterway

Rachel Seis

September 3, 2014

It’s a posh time to be water in Milwaukee. In the past couple weeks alone, the city’s water sources have made headlines: MillerCoors is donating $500,000 in an effort to improve the water quality and shoreline ...

On living in Milwaukee for half your life and never wanting to leave

Matt Wild

September 2, 2014

Beginning this fall, I will have lived in Milwaukee for half my life. I moved here in 1996, an incoming UWM film student with a part-time job and a questionable haircut. I played in an equally questionable rock...

Is the hipster zombie apocalypse headed for Milwaukee?

Matt Wild

August 29, 2014

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• “What is a city for?”That’s the opening question of a recent Washington Post piece, “T...

Great job, Milwaukee! Milwaukee is “underrated but intriguing,” we guess

Matt Wild

August 28, 2014

Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee!-Bot (similar to OnMilwaukee’s Jeff Sherman-Bot 8000) to keep track of the city’s many appearances on dopey online lists....

Tupac has always been “dead” for incoming college freshmen, notes dumb Beloit Mindset List

Matt Wild

August 26, 2014

For the past 17 years, Beloit College’s annual Mindset List has attempted to give college professors and administrators a peek inside the minds and world-views of incoming college freshmen. “So-and-so has never...

Milwaukee is the new Portland (and the 5th most dangerous city in the U.S.)

Matt Wild

August 22, 2014

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• Memo to the Internet: If you need some fast, easy clicks, just write something with the wo...

The Disclaimer: Journal Sentinel’s don’t-call-it-a-buyout buyout with Bruce Murphy

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 21, 2014

Every Wednesday at noon, WMSE’s Ryan Schleicher, Shepherd Express’ Evan Rytlewski, and Milwaukee Record’s Matt Wild take to the WMSE airwaves to discuss all things Milwaukee. This half-hour fun-fest is called T...

According to people unfamiliar with Snopes, “The Purge” is coming to Milwaukee this Friday

Matt Wild

August 20, 2014

//In the dystopian world of last year’s The Purge and this year’s The Purge: Purge Harder Anarchy, society is granted an annual 12-hour period of complete lawlessness. Theft, murder, and anything else desp...

Let’s hope this cousin-seeking-cousin Craigslist connection remains missed

Tyler Maas

August 19, 2014

Craigslist is a great resource to help you sell your NordicTrack, score a free non-HD-compadible television or risk being manslaughtered by a stranger for a gently used copy of Mannequin Two: On The Move on VHS...

Here’s a video of Paul Ryan awkwardly milking a goat

Matt Wild

August 15, 2014

Lest you think U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan has been taking it easy and/or working on his ’ceps since his failed 2012 vice presidential bid, think again. The Janesville Republican is still the golden child of his party,...

Bublr Bikes (not WatrFountain Bikes) hit Milwaukee streets

Matt Wild

August 15, 2014

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• We’re forever barred from making jokes about NEWaukee’s NEWaukeean of the Week (sponsored ...

The Disclaimer: Making sense (maybe) of “placemaking”

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 14, 2014

Tracklist: 10 dubious Milwaukee listicle appearances

Matt Wild

August 11, 2014

If there’s one thing Milwaukee is good at, it’s appearing on dopey online lists—or “listicles,” if you’re nasty. Yes, there’s something about the Brew City that makes it a perennial go-to name for lists of 10 C...

A-side/B-side: Revisiting the Madison-Milwaukee disconnect

Milwaukee Record Staff

August 6, 2014

In A-side/B-side, two Milwaukee Record writers tackle important city issues in an informal, crosstalk style. Insults are hurled, feelings are hurt, and everyone learns something in the end. Maybe.Tyler Maas...

The Disclaimer: Legalizing Uber and Lyft, and fighting Milwaukee segregation

Milwaukee Record Staff

July 24, 2014

Tracklist: 8 bizarre Milwaukee Kickstarter campaigns

Matt Wild

July 21, 2014

Recently, the Internet has done what it does best—flip the fuck out—over a Kickstarter campaign dedicated to making potato salad. What started as a lark with a $10 goal (tagline: “Basically I’m just making pota...

Let’s find some dumb ideas in the city’s “Action Agenda”

Matt Wild

July 18, 2014

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications for bits of news we missed throughout the week. • Milwaukee has plenty of wonderful qualities—music, art, food, festivals, sports, cheap booze...